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DAILY NEWS
JUL 22 1964
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Coups peril
3 Nations as
0,45 Meets
111-eat of three new military
coups hangs over Latin Amer-
ica. And the outcome of the
current Organization of Ameri-
can States meeting here in
Washington on Cuban subver-
sion will undoubtedly influence
the Lal.in military's decision to
move.
,Argentine, Chile and, almost
unbelievably, Uruguay, are the
countries in the shadow of mill-
arc take-overs.'
'AriD TIME
Argentina in 1962 experienced
military intervention, out of
which came an elected govern.
' ment ostensibly dedicated to
democracy. But hard-core Pe-
ronism and communism are
giving the government of Presi-
dent Arturo Illia a hard time
over inflation. The Peronist.
communist drive is actually
aimed at national control.
Dr. Illia still has to make a
resolute stand against the
Peronis1-communist onslaught.
Mean{vhile, C a s t r o-supported
guerillas are harassing the Ar-
gentina gendarmarie in Argen-
tina's northwest corner.
Argentina's president has said
his government wants "hemis-
pheric unanimity" in dealing
.with Venezuela's indictment of
Cuba for subversion. This can
mean much or little. It can
mean Argentina will urge Bo-
liva and Uruguay, its small
neighbors now hanging back on
the indictment, to .strengthen
their stand. Or it can mean
support for the two in their in-
transigence.
The latter course will feed the
determination of the sectors of
the Argentina' Army opposing
the Peronist-communist partner-
ship to takeover again.
Chile's situation is t r a g 1 c.
With a strong Socialist-Commu-
nist presidential candidate run-
ning for el@ctiou in September,
even the democratic forces of
Chile are afraid to urge strong
Chilean action against Cuba.-
This, in turn, serves as an argu-
ment among the military that
the extreme left has effectively
neutralized donlocracy in Chile,
It will weigh in favor of a coup-
Uruguay, once South Amer-
ica's model democracy, is suf-
fering from extreme. political
stagnation, due largely to its
'collegaite' form of government,
It is ruled by a Council of Nine,
each in turn serving as presi-
dent. The nine are widely di-
vided in personal loyalties aual
have brought Uruguay's govern-
ment to a virtual standstill try-
ing to carve up power and
patronage among themselves.
NEAR PARALYSIS
The stagnation approaches
total paralysis in some areas
as various factions in the Uru-
guayan Congress refuse to pass
legislation because of petty po.
litical treacheries among the
ruling nine.
While this disgusts Uruguay's
men of action, Uruguay suffers
a reflected economic stagnatioct.-
because Argentina, to which it is
closely tied economically, is not
going ahead.
Uruguay's military ? men, tho
outstanding in the hemisphere
for their traditional devotion. to
democracy, are, growing impa-,
tient. Uruguay's failure to act
against Communist Cuba with
the hemisphere- majority at the
meeting here will undoubtedly
strengthen, their moral justifica.
tion for a coup.
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